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June 09 is here

A quick update for the week. Cousin Dan Ellis Jonas passed away on the 30th of May. His service in Denver was on the 5th. His funeral and burial took place on Saturday in Smithfield, Utah. He was the son of Ellis and Geri Jonas of Smithfield. He had liver problems that required a transplant and when the liver didn’t come, he knew it was a matter of time. He was only 50 years old so I took quite a few of the family by surprise really. I hope all are doing well.

The attorney I work for decided to take Thursday and Friday off. Meaning, I ran the office myself on those days. It was an education to muddle through without him after only a week of really doing any of the work. I think I did okay though. Good thing we didn’t have anything serious!

This coming weekend I fly out to Idaho for the Andra Reunion in Lava Hot Springs. I fly in to SLC on Friday and drive to Richmond that night for a graduation party for some high schoolers. A good portion of Saturday will be at the Andra Reunion. Afterward I run to Kaysville to go to the Bountiful Temple with Amanda’s brother, Derek. I am looking forward to a busy weekend. Then I fly out Sunday morning back for the craze here in OKC. It will be a quickly weekend. Sadly, my skipping the reunion last year means a number have died I didn’t get to see for quite a while. Hopefully we have a good while before any more go.

Amanda’s birthday was yesterday. The big 23. I spoiled her with a 8 gig iPod. I thought I was buying her a present that I could also reap some gain from. However, as she uploaded her music and I looked at mine, I found out I have over 10 gig of music on my computer alone. I guess I will have to get my own since Amanda has over 4 gig of her own. It is all hers now. Perhaps she will let me listen on a road trip. I threw a little party for her on Saturday night with my law buddies. Holt and Lindy made home made ice cream. How is that for a party? We played a number of games, chatted, ate Amanda’s birthday cake, and relaxed away some perfectly good hours. Today we had dinner with the Curtis family, who also came to the birthday party. They spoiled us with dinner including lasagna, minestrone soup, and more. We played a game called Ticket to Ride. It was actually quite a bit of fun and we enjoyed ourselves. I recommend it to others. Ticket to Ride and Axis and Allies are both two games that we will have to purchase at some point in the future.

Time to turn off and go to bed. On the safari hunts each night killing cockroaches, I have to boast an all time high of 137 in one night. I may have boasted of this fact in the past. I am also happy to report the numbers have been quite a bit lesser since. Tonight was a whopping 38. Tonight also included a camel cricket, 4 slugs, 1 regular cricket, and 2 spiders. The number of cockroaches seem to be falling each night. I hope it continues. There are less getting into the garage and getting stuck on the sticky bug traps. May it continue.